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Keep up the Good work

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		This Barnstar is awarded to Skomorokh for outstanding contributions to the Good Articles process, especially reviews and reassessments.--ragesoss (talk) 22:32, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Why thank you very much, and may I wish you luck on your tenure at the Post and thank you for your insightful contributions to the Weekly. Regards, Skomorokh 22:44, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

King Kong Defense

Sure, I help, I incorporated the references into the article. May need some more work as I am not the best of editors but I think I did a pretty good job. The other user on the discussion page mention my incorporation to be a copyright violation. Don't really understand how it could be a copyright violation though as it is a factual happening and what can one do other than report it as it is and what the source says. Besides, I am an agorist, I do not acknowledge the artificial monopoly known colloquially known as intellectual property :) Lord Metroid (talk) 22:50, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

That's the spirit! Thanks for the help with the sources, it looks a lot more salvagable now. Solidarity, Skomorokh 23:08, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Rescue tag

Fair enough re: ARS tag, though just to be clear I removed it not because it's a no-hoper, but because there's precious little need of a rescue. Thanks for your help in bringing that state about.

That's a nice black bar atop the edit window, too. It's amazing what they do with HTML/CSS/whatever these days. --Kizor 19:09, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

The AfD failed more out of the headcount of opposition than the verifiability of the topic; I was hoping if the GNG was met a Rescuer could update the article accordingly. No worries on the difference of opinion. The black bar is a relatively new addition; such editnotices can get quite elaborate. Cheers, Skomorokh 05:24, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Category:Incorrectly tagged Anarchism task force articles

What is Category:Incorrectly tagged Anarchism task force articles used for? --Pascal666 (talk) 19:56, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Presumably for when the argument for the "anarchism" parameter in {{philosophy}} is "yes" and where some unacceptable argument is entered in another field. You might wish to ask the Pontiff for more details. Regards, Skomorokh 05:24, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Illustration for Meinong's jungle

Re illustration for Meinong's jungle:
Just to toss out a possibility --
http://commons.wikimedia.org/File:Hieronymus_Bosch_-_The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights_-_Hell.jpg
-- 201.37.230.43 (talk) 22:43, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

That's definitely the sort of thing I had in mind, though the Bosch work is not a favourite of mine and might not convey the idea at a thumbnail resolution. Thanks for the suggestion! Skomorokh 05:24, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

FYI, larger version http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Hieronymus_Bosch_-_The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights_-_Hell.jpg -- don't know if this is too "thumbnail". -- 201.37.230.43 (talk) 21:39, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Well, check it out to the right at 250x250 pixels (default). It may be too scaled for the casual reader to make out any of the details. Skomorokh 23:50, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

You Being an Objectivist

No prob, I'll refactor it shortly. Just to clarify, I have absolutely no problem with you editing the article, it was the behavior of the editor who sent you that message. Idag (talk) 02:22, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

It's cool, I get it. Appreciate the gesture, Skomorokh 02:29, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Done =) Idag (talk) 02:40, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Ivan Teodorovich

User:Ikip has repented of his attack on the nominator during this AfD and has edited the closed AfD discussion to remove it. That leaves my response looking a bit silly; I could in turn remove that, but I don't think closed AfD discussions should be rewritten with hindsight in this way. May I ask you, as the closing admin, to restore it? Regards, JohnCD (talk) 14:39, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. On the one hand, I welcome Ikip's retraction of the "attack", but on the other hand closed discussions ought not the be edited. I've raised the issue at the administrator's incidents noticeboard to see what wiser heads have to say about the matter. Skomorokh 17:23, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Pass the sodium chloride

{{admin!}} The article Alex latham purports to be a biography of a football superstar, who does not seem to have made a dent in Google. The properly capitalised version Alex Latham has been protected against recreation, and I ask that this article be deleted as a hoax and salted also. Thank you for your time, Skomorokh 18:21, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

 Done PeterSymonds (talk) 19:16, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Peter, I appreciate it. Skomorokh 19:22, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Rasputin lol

Здравствуйте и Спасибо Rasputin! lol - thanks for your edits, still trying to grasp the basics of footnotes and accurate ref protocols.Ernstblumberg (talk) 21:16, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Glad to help! Feel free to ask if there's anything you're curious about. Skomorokh 21:20, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

History restoration

{{admin!}} The Book of Eli has been moved to the mainspace from a userfied version of a deleted article. Could you please find and restore the history? It may be in either Book of Eli or The Book of Eli. Thanks in advance, Skomorokh 16:42, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

 Done, was at The Book of Eli (the other just had a deleted redirect created by you). Regards SoWhy 17:06, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, SoWhy, I appreciate it. Skomorokh 17:14, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Malcolm X

Thanks for helping out. — ] (] · ]) 20:16, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

After seeing you going alone on the Alexander Berkman article, and after finding The Bolshevik Myth to be one of the few anarchism-related articles worth showcasing on Portal:Anarchism, it's the least I could do. Let me know if you need a hand with anything. Sincerely, Skomorokh 00:48, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Percept Article

Dear Skomorokh,

If you wish to help us with Percept article, please visit the related discussion page and suggest changes there. Thanks.

Kind regards, Damir Ibrisimovic (talk) 22:24, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

I'm afraid I don't have anything to contribute to the article, though I wish you well with it. Good luck, Skomorokh 00:48, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Gail Trimble

Thanks for the advice and support re the article - this is just to let you know that I'll be pretty much offline over this weekend, so if there's anything you can do in the meantime I'd appreciate it. Ghmyrtle (talk) 22:15, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

That is a pity; I hope I will have time to do the topic justice. Nominations like this are really quite demoralising. Solidarity, Skomorokh 22:18, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

I'll check in when I can - but I have IRL duties! Ghmyrtle (talk) 07:55, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

PS - it's up for DYK as well. Ghmyrtle (talk) 08:00, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the welcome!

Hazelrenfield (talk) 19:03, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for joining! Skomorokh 02:10, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

William Gibson / Ryman topics & lists

Hey, i noticed you did most of the work getting the William Gibson and List of works articles up to featured status. I'm trying to make a featured topic out of Geoff Ryman, with his list of works and list of awards. I was wondering if you were interested in collaborating in doing something similar with Gibson. I want to set a precedent for this sort of topic, and lists of awards are easy to source for science fiction authors. I think this would be best if the list of works includes more ifo about each major work though, so not including the works themselves in the topic is more reasonable. Does this sound like a good idea to you? I was thinking something like the format i starting at the Geoff Ryman bibliography, but the table is not important to me, as long as the info is included (a short plot synopsis, and info that would go in a typical novel stub infobox, so is just a copy paste job).

If you want to work together, we could co-nominate all the lists and topic for featuring, so that all the formatting and content is set for these types of lists (I like having the little stars, but have no ownership issues and don't participate in any of the competitions or the wikicup).YobMod 08:51, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

What a pleasant surprise! Yes, I would be most interested in collaborating on a featured topic for Gibson, and I agree that setting a sound precedent is an idea worth pursuing. I have written neither an awards list nor a featured topic before, so I am not familiar with the requirements (for reliable sources in the former instance and comprehensiveness in the latter). I wrote Works of William Gibson as a straightforward list, as summarizing each work would have made the page prohibitively long – not sure what the precedent in such a situation ought to be. I took a look at Geoff Ryman bibliography and List of awards and nominations received by Geoff Ryman; though the formatting is inconsistent and could use a dose of WP:MoS, there are some interesting approaches. A pleasure to make your acquaintance, Skomorokh 10:28, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Cool. I made a subpage at the William Gibson talk page to get the list up to a good enough standard for mainspace. I added the infobox and sections, and copied all the data from the Locus index. Now it all needs sorting into the correct sections (I'm following formatting of the musicians FLs, with each award getting its own section with a short intro, followed by the tables, hence the list in date format has to be split into award type.) The Ryman inconstinstances are hopefully temporary - i created the lists only a few days ago, and have done lots of playinyg around with wikitables :-).YobMod 16:43, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

A message to Skomorokh

The AI/IAF/AFI has renewed interest in wikipedia. I hope that ochlarchists like Zazaban and Skomorokh can be more matter of fact this time! The AI is certainly not a "hoax/spam/non-notable; worth keeping an eye on for quality control", see my arguments below. AI/IAF/AFI is significantly the largest anarchist organization in the world. This is based on reliable, independent third party sources, and I hope thus that my scientifical contributions will not be deleted.

If adding true and easily verifiable information to the IFA-IAF-Wiki-page, that is clearly misleading and biased, is vandalism, you have a wrong interpretation of the concept vandalism. My additions isare100% according to the Misplaced Pages principle of verification. If I am blocked it is real vandalism. You are a vandal asking for blocking me, for adding true and easily verifiable information to the IFA-IAF-Wiki-page.